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Sometimes he followed me into the kitchen, with an oddly supplicant demeanor.† (source)
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There was virtually no position I could find for the armadillo that did not make the creature resemble a supplicant—not to mention, a wretched amputee.† (source)
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Toorlexa Nebee caught me near his latrine one afternoon, loitering he said, as if that stinking place were a coveted shelter and myself a supplicant to his excrement, and now he believes he has frightened me off for good.† (source)
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They had resumed their original positions, Ullman behind the desk and Jack in front of it, interviewer and interviewee, supplicant and reluctant patron.† (source)
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He wanted to use Chacko's visit to impress local supplicants and Party Workers.† (source)
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"How many supplicants do we have today?" he inquired.† (source)
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Each magician must unbar the path for herself, and the challenge is different for each supplicant.† (source)
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There was no naos, so of course no pronaos, no altar, no statues of the gods or of their supplicants.† (source)
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He walked out on the prairie and stood holding his hat like some supplicant to the darkness over them all and he stood there for a long time.† (source)
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His bearing and manner, as well as the number of supplicants crowded around his elevated chair, indicated that he was in all likelihood a creature of high status, if not the Troll King himself.† (source)
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She collapsed; he caught her in the fall and carried her out of the narrow street as an adoring supplicant might a religious social worker.† (source)
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We had not come to the meeting as supplicants or petitioners, but as fellow South Africans who merited an equal place at the table.† (source)
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She's probably another supplicant," Cyril said, "come to beg you to take away a gift you gave her at birth."† (source)
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The one part of the process Eragon enjoyed was watching how the supplicants reacted to the two Urgals who loomed behind Nasuada's chair.† (source)
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Luma parried the challenges and maintained a supplicant monotone that would've amused the boys on the Fugees, who knew what she sounded like when she wanted to make a point.† (source)
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Nothing was forgotten, every service requested was provided, and De Roos or the other doctors who made their rounds— specialists in infection, the heart, and Rontgenology-had long technical conversations with Alessandro, thus keeping him far better informed than most of the other supplicants who were drawn daily to the hospital.† (source)
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